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Driver in deadly NJ crash had 3 other accidents

Associated Press
4:12 p.m. EDT August 8, 2014

Police stand near a smashed car after a collision with a dump truck sent both vehicles into a lake, submerging the car and killing its driver Thursday, July 17, 2014, in Lawrence, N.J. Lawrence police Sgt. Joe Amodio says the truck rammed the car near a traffic light Thursday afternoon and the vehicles wound up in Colonial Lake, with the truck on top of the submerged car. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)(Photo: Mel Evans, AP)

TRENTON — A prosecutor says the dump truck driver who pushed a car into a New Jersey lake, killing its driver, had three other accidents earlier in the day.

The prosecutor told a judge on Thursday that 38-year-old Daniel Everett rear-ended a car at a stop light, collided with another vehicle and drove over a lawn before the deadly crash on July 17 in Lawrence.

Witnesses told police Everett was driving his 80,000-pound erratically and at a high rate of speed when he hit James McLean’s car and pushed it more than 200 feet into a lake, killing McLean.

His lawyer, James Gerrow, told the judge his client was suffering from erratic blood sugar.